24 Sep 2014

On 15th September, Mr
Seshadri Chari’s “The Enemy Within” was published in the Organiser magazine’s issue of September 21, 2014.

This website
reproduced it without any comments for readers to judge it on its merits in
their own light because it realised that Mr Chari’s whole concern is with
India which “is slowly but surely waking
up to the virulent and concerted attacks mounted on its spiritual and cultural
foundations [the Sanatana Dharma] by pseudo Western scholars in the garb of
deceptive academic studies”. It reminds us of Sri Aurobindo’s prophetic words
at Uttarpara on 30 May 1908: “When it is
said that India shall rise, it is the Sanatana Dharma that shall rise…. It is
the one religion which impresses upon mankind the closeness of God to us and
embraces in its compass all the possible means by which man can approach God….
When the Sanatana Dharma declines, then the nation declines, and if the
Sanatana Dharma were capable of perishing, with the Sanatana Dharma it would
perish.” Mr Chari, like Mr Narendra Modi, is working for that rising India of
Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo.

But
the League of Lapsed Logicians, like frogs-in-the-well frightened by thunder
and lightning overhead, has failed to grasp that Mr Chari’s dealing with its
patron saints Peter Heehs and the Ashram Trust (who alone, according to them,
constitute the institution called Sri Aurobindo Ashram), is only incidental. Mr
Chari focuses on Heehs as “a petty henchman of the loathsome tribe” of
unapologetic misinterpreters and denigrators of India’s spiritual and cultural foundations
only because Heehs successfully “adopted the more devious and crafty modus
operandi” of “the wily colonizer and invader” and “identified and befriended
the enemy within”, namely “the incumbent Trustees of Sri Aurobindo Ashram”. And
“such a disgraceful exploitation,” Mr Chari stresses, “has been possible only because
of the decade long rot at the very core of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram as an
institution”. L-L-L has failed to realise that as editor of a magazine reaching
millions and as spokesman of the largest political party, Mr Chari’s data is
the result of competent research. He is not so naïve as to be “spoon-fed the
stale stew of lies and misinformation that has been cooking in the pots of
disoriented, psychotic and parasitic cancers [like L-L-L] that prefer to
terminate their host along with themselves”.

And so, on the 18th,
L-L-L issued a sage advice (reproduced below) to Mr Chari as would a parent
disabusing an aberrant child with irrefutable logic or reasoning, and offered
to “help him identify the real enemy within which he is free to vanquish as it
pleases him”. Now the commonest form of deductive logic is this three-step Aristotelian
syllogism: The first step, premise or statement: “All men are mortal” and the second:
“Socrates is a man”, irrefutably lead to the third or conclusion: “therefore
Socrates is mortal”. Logic thus is a science or art of reasoning which demonstrates
the validity or inevitability of its conclusion arising from the irrefutable interrelation
of its statements of facts or events.

L-L-L’s advice
opens with: The word ‘enemy’ is defined as a person or persons who hate(s)
another, attack(s) or seek(s) to harm, injure, overthrow or confound antagonistic
or opposing person or persons. Like “All men are mortal”, this premise is
irrefutable: For indeed an “enemy” is or does all these things.

But weirdly L-L-L
assumes that this premise by itself, must lead Mr Chari to accept its
illogical conviction that “since 2008 Reddy, Ranade, Deshpande and other
anti-Ashram elements have been openly and publicly hating those in the Ashram
who do not agree with them; although their hate was never provoked nor
reciprocated, they have been trying to harm and threaten those individuals in
the Ashram who do not agree with them; in some cases even physically fighting
with fierce antagonism against the Ashram, seeking to injure some members and
trying to overthrow the Ashram, acting like a hostile force and unit…. These
hostile elements from WITHIN the Ashram use the institution’s very own resources
[Really?] to try to cause damage to it… gone to the most unimaginably absurd
extent of even demanding that the Ashram should finance the legal battles that
these people are waging against the Ashram itself! Like disoriented, psychotic
and parasitic cancers, instead of seeking a remedy these elements prefer to
terminate its host along with themselves, the only justification appearing
to be that without it they will perish in any case.”

This and other such
malicious fulminations are supposed to act as L-L-L’s irrefutable second
premise or statement demonstrating that its conviction or conclusion is
irrefutably valid because it arises inevitably from the indisputable
interrelation of R-R-D & Co. and its first premise defining the “enemy
within”!

Now fulmination, says
a reputed American dictionary, is derived from fulminic acid – an acid isomeric with cyanic acid. Fulminates, says
Wikipedia, are chemicalcompounds which include the fulminate ion.
The fulminate ion, CNO is a pseudohalicion,
acting like a halogen with its charge and reactivity. Due
to the instability of the ion, fulminate salts are friction-sensitive
explosives. The best known is mercury(II)
fulminate, which has been used as a primary explosive in detonators.

Before
L-L-L’s malicious fulminations explode or implode sending its precious well-wishers and
patron saints into God-knows which limbo, let it heed, and heed urgently, Sri Aurobindo’s sound
advice: “Common sense by the way is not logic (which is the least commonsense-like
thing in the world), it is simply looking at things as they are without
inflation or deflation – not imagining wild imaginations – or for that matter
despairing ‘I know not why’ despairs.”

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